A developer explains the technical drawbacks of icon fonts and details their workflow for replacing them with inline SVG for better rendering and maintainability.
Introduces Shoestring, a lightweight JavaScript DOM utility that helps reduce code bloat by offering a modular, jQuery-like alternative.
How to disable Safari's URL truncation in OSX Yosemite to show the full web address, useful for developers and security.
Explores the evolution and future capabilities of CSS media queries, moving beyond screen size to adapt to user environment and device features.
A developer shares their journey of writing and selling their first ebook, a technical guide on the Susy layout tool for web developers.
A comprehensive guide to creating animations using SVG and the SMIL specification, featuring syntax explanations and demos.
A developer details migrating their personal website from WordPress to a static site using Pelican, Pure CSS, and Disqus for simplicity and security.
Explores the critical importance of URLs for collaboration, institutional knowledge, and transparency, especially in tech and government contexts.
Analyzes Stack Overflow's performance-first engineering culture, including trade-offs like skipping unit tests for speed and building custom servers over cloud hosting.
A guide on using the robots.txt file to control search engine access to specific parts or the entirety of a website.
The author announces splitting their blog into two: one for English technical content and another for German business/investment topics.
A guide to making embedded SVG images responsive across browsers using CSS techniques like the Padding Hack and inline media queries.
Explains the SVG transform attribute, covering translation, scaling, rotation, and skewing functions and their interaction with SVG coordinate systems.
A proposal for a new HTTP verb, VALIDATE, to enable safe, idempotent server-side validation from client-side forms without side effects.
Gmail's plain text mode adds hard line breaks, causing formatting issues. The article explains the problem and a standards-compliant solution.
Explains how to use SVG's <g>, <use>, <defs>, and <symbol> elements for grouping and reusing graphical components to create cleaner, more maintainable code.
A comprehensive guide to the CSS will-change property, covering usage, performance, and best practices for web developers.
A developer introduces an improved CSS-based 'Adaptive Placeholder' form field pattern, aiming to enhance UX without unnecessary JavaScript.
A technical comparison of static map solutions from Google, OpenStreetMap, Nokia HERE, and Yandex for web performance optimization.
A tutorial on using AngularJS recursive templates with ng-include to display hierarchical data like category trees of any depth.
